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Project Prompt #2

Gray

In class students will take photos of interesting things from their surroundings. Then they will put the photos into Illustrator and live trace the images simplifying them into 5 - 10 grays. A simple value range. You will then print the image. They will then reproduce the image by first drawing out the simple shapes and then matching the values in the shape and applying it the paint to the image.

Make sure you pick images that have a good value range. You want a good amount of contrast while maintaining a decent range of gray values. Also please consider your compositional choices. Make interesting compelling content choices.